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'Absolute Hell Hole': Private Prisons Set to House ICE Detainees Bring New Set of Problems

  • Florida's Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center began accepting detainees on July 2, 2025, at a remote Everglades airstrip.
  • Governor Ron DeSantis authorized the facility's construction using emergency powers during the Biden administration, building it in just eight days.
  • The center houses up to 3,000 detainees, can expand to 5,000, and uses National Guard members as immigration judges to speed deportations.
  • President Trump called the site perfect and said it will hold "some of the most menacing migrants," while DHS Secretary Noem hopes other states follow Florida's lead.
  • Critics protest due process violations and environmental harm in the Everglades, alleging the facility threatens endangered species and migrant rights amid lawsuits.
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By Piper Hudspeth Blackburn, CNN Nearly 70 members of the Florida National Guard are providing security at the new immigration detention center in the Everglades, top Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said Wednesday. “The National Guard also plays a critical role in protecting the US southern border from illegal entry and maintaining the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States,” Parnell told reporters at a Pentagon ne…

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South Florida Reporter broke the news in on Tuesday, July 1, 2025.
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